“If you can understand word for word what they’re saying, then they suck and need to go home,” Cazares said.

So she hopes no one will understand a word from the 24 or so bands performing Friday and Saturday during West Texas Deathfest IV at Vientiane Nights, 6007 E. Amarillo Blvd.

That doesn’t mean the singers are just making noise, though.

“The vocalization is very difficult to do,” said Cazares, the festival’s organizer, along with husband Ramon. “We gauge it like an instrument. You have your highs, your lows, your mids.

“These are extremely talented musicians; they’re not up there just making sounds.”

Cazares said she knows death metal gets a bad rap, but the festival is a homecoming for her and her husband, who’ll join with members of his old band, Infliction, to perform with his new band Abolishment of Flesh on Friday.

“This is like a family reunion of sorts, but we’re inviting extra people to come to it,” she said.

The music, she said, “is the most extreme music out there. It is brutal. ... A lot of people say they’re into brutal music, going to the extremes, and this is it. I’ve never found anything more extreme than death metal.”

Other bands on the bill include Crypt Infection, Another Texas Murder Scene, Predominant Mortification, Shackled to the Grave, Age of Heresy and at least one band whose name Get Out! can’t print.

Cazares and her family will move this fall to the Dallas-Fort Worth area, so this is likely to be the last Deathfest.

“Our intention always was to bring death metal to our friends and our area,” she said, “but without this being our area any more, I guess it’s time for someone else to take the reins.”